Maintain regtrans-ms and blf files generated by Georgia UTS sessions

Published April 14, 2019 / by Chris Smith / Leave a Comment

A little script I schedule for servers using Georgia UTS. Below I use Robocopy to move files older than 3 days, to avoid anyone currently logged in. For me I expect users to be logged on for no more than a day, active user files should therefore be untouched.

echo This Batch Files removes .regtrans-ms and .TM.blf which can take up space if unmaintained
echo Change to C drive to ensure correct
%systemdrive%
cd \
echo Create temporary directory
mkdir deltempfiles
echo Copy temporary files into temp directory
ROBOCOPY C:\Users\ C:\deltempfiles\ *.regtrans-ms /move /minage:3 /S /R:1 /W:1 /XJ
ROBOCOPY C:\Users\ C:\deltempfiles\ *.TM.blf /move /minage:3 /S /R:1 /W:1 /XJ
echo Cleanup
rmdir C:\deltempfiles\ /S /Q
echo Complete
exit

echo This Batch Files removes .regtrans-ms and .TM.blf which can take up space if unmaintained

echo Change to C drive to ensure correct

%systemdrive%

cd \

echo Create temporary directory

mkdir deltempfiles

echo Copy temporary files into temp directory

ROBOCOPY C:\Users\ C:\deltempfiles\ *.regtrans-ms /move /minage:3 /S /R:1 /W:1 /XJ

ROBOCOPY C:\Users\ C:\deltempfiles\ *.TM.blf /move /minage:3 /S /R:1 /W:1 /XJ

echo Cleanup

rmdir C:\deltempfiles\ /S /Q

echo Complete

exit

Force launch IE with a Shortcut

Published February 03, 2019 / by Chris Smith / Leave a Comment

I needed to force Windows 10 to open a web browser in IE for some internal applications as they still use ActiveX add-ins. Rather simply instead of using a URL shortcut, use a standard shortcut calling IE and passing the URL as a parameter. Here I call the 32bit version of IE (As I don’t […]

Disable Powerpoint 2016 extended display mode

Published January 20, 2019 / by Chris Smith / Leave a Comment

Credit: http://tips.timscomputer.com/disable-powerpoint-2013-extended-display-mode-via-registry/ Disable the extended display mode upon login, same as the link just modified the version from 15 to 16 Run the following as a batch file upon login

@echo off
reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\PowerPoint\Options /v UseMonMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

1 2	@echo off reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\PowerPoint\Options /v UseMonMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Windows 2008: Task Scheduler causes account lockout when policy locks account after one attempt

Published December 11, 2018 / by Chris Smith / Leave a Comment

I encountered a very odd issue where I was attempting to amend a scheduled task on a Windows 2008 R2 server. When attempting to amend to a “service” account it locked out immediately. This account has a policy where it is locked out if the password is incorrect once. After several attempts and having to […]

DBForms: Check and format email addresses from Sage Line 500/1000

Published October 28, 2018 / by Chris Smith / Leave a Comment

As the email field can sometimes not be used for the correct purpose I use a bit of code to look for an @ symbol and then a dot. If more than one email address is in I replace the comma with -t which is required by dbmailsend. If using Sage Line 500/1000 the CustomerTable […]

Remotely remove a broken user profile from another computers registry when the user folder is deleted

Published October 21, 2018 / by Chris Smith / Leave a Comment

I recently had an issue where someone had deleted my admin user profile from a remote server by deleting its folder. The logon then failed as Windows still expected the folder to be there, as obviously the registry entries were not removed. Rather than manually checking HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList for the SID and then removing it […]

Using current versions of Syncplify.me Server! as a Cisco UC Backup Server

Published October 07, 2018 / by Chris Smith / Leave a Comment

For anyone who has had the annoyance of trying to backup a Cisco Unity Communications based server to a Windows based server, you will know how annoying it can be. I recommend Syncplify.me Server! and it has a how to for its older version of Server!. They have obviously changes it to a web based […]

Amend an SCCM NTFS USB flash drive for the Microsoft Surface 3 (Non Pro)

Published September 16, 2018 / by Chris Smith / Leave a Comment

Microsoft Surface 3’s for some reason don’t support mounting USB Flash drives mounted as NTFS from its UEFI/BIOS and have to be FAT32. Either reformat the USB flash drive as Fat32 and copy back the image (Windows Command Line currently only supports FAT32 to NTFS conversion, not the other way around), third party software needs […]

With a faulty drive stop Windows from mounting

Published September 02, 2018 / by Chris Smith / Leave a Comment

Credit: A Video from Linus Tech Tips reminded me of a way to stop Windows 7/10 from automounting drives If you have an issue with a hard drive (That is spinning up, doesn’t sound like its head is craching/clicking and a SMART tool like CrystalDiskInfo Standard edition shows its healthy) that simply appears to hang […]

Georgia Telnet or SSH generate a list of users for GS_L_User.txt

Published June 30, 2018 / by Chris Smith / Leave a Comment

Georgia Telnet can restrict the number of users that connect to Telnet or SSH. I am lazy so I tend to generate a list based off our user logon scripts folders, however I do of course take a backup and test it afterwards.

echo Change to the drive where your Georgia logon scripts are located
d:
echo Change to the folder to where your Georgia logon scripts are located
cd D:\Datalinx\GS_UTS\scripts
echo Get the dir command to write out a simple list of directories into a file called dir.txt
dir /B /A:D >dir.txt
echo add a 1 to end of each row and copy the list into the file GS_L_User.txt located normally a directory above the user script folders.
echo It takes place straight away

echo Change to the drive where your Georgia logon scripts are located

echo Change to the folder to where your Georgia logon scripts are located

cd D:\Datalinx\GS_UTS\scripts

echo Get the dir command to write out a simple list of directories into a file called dir.txt

dir /B /A:D >dir.txt

echo add a 1 to end of each row and copy the list into the file GS_L_User.txt located normally a directory above the user script folders.

echo It takes place straight away

Additional information: Georgia Telnet Manual and Logon Features

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